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Radio Production Technical

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does FCC stand for
Federal Communications Commission
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word

2. What is Infrasonic?
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Below 20Hz

3. What are the four processes involved in digital recording?
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
In order to get a new perspective on the project

4. What is a Woofer?
Low frequency sound speaker
Business
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Decibels (dB).

5. What is Destructive Recording?
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
Between 20Hz and 20kHz

6. What are Plosives?
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement
High frequency sound speaker
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Below 20Hz

7. What is Hertz (Hz)?
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
Cycles per second
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

8. What is a Shock Mount for?
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
Cycles per second
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.
In order to get a new perspective on the project

9. What is Hertz (Hz)?
Low frequency sound speaker
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Cycles per second
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio

10. What are the levels of tones
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
High frequency sound speaker
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo

11. What is Gating?
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Low frequency sound speaker
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
S sounds - sounds that hiss

12. What is Expansion?
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
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Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement

13. What is Amplitude?
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
Middle frequency sound speaker
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From the peak to the trough

14. Why should you not listen to anything for a while between editing sessions?
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
In order to get a new perspective on the project
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave

15. What is Compression?
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Below 20Hz
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.

16. What is Mixing?
Making the sounds more usable.
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

17. What does a Sound Wave look like?
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Sending the sound where you want it to go
Making the sounds more usable.
Between 20Hz and 20kHz

18. What is Mixing?
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Business
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom

19. A radio station is first and foremost a ________
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Middle frequency sound speaker
Business

20. How does a Condenser Mic work?
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.

21. When a two speakers are housed in the same box - what is the arrangement?
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom

22. What is a Cycle
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
From the peak to the trough

23. What is Infrasonic?
Below 20Hz
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Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact

24. What is Nondestructive Recording?
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Muting sounds above peak
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air

25. What is Sibilance?
S sounds - sounds that hiss
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.
Low frequency sound speaker
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble

26. What is SPL
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
Cycles per second
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)

27. How does a Dynamic Mic work?
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom

28. When a two speakers are housed in the same box - what is the arrangement?
High frequency sound speaker
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
Making the sounds more usable.
In order to get a new perspective on the project

29. What is a Cycle
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up

30. What is ultrasonic?
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Above 20kHz
Muting sounds above peak
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up

31. What is Destructive Recording?
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -

32. What is a transducer?
Federal Communications Commission
Decibels (dB).
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Above 20kHz

33. Why should you not listen to anything for a while between editing sessions?
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
In order to get a new perspective on the project

34. What is Mixing?
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
In order to get a new perspective on the project

35. A radio station is first and foremost a ________
Business
Cycles per second
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)

36. What is Routing?
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
Low frequency sound speaker
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo

37. What are the four dynamic processes?
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
Making the sounds more usable.

38. How does a Dynamic Mic work?
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Recording that overwrites the previous recording

39. What is the FCC and what does it do for radio stations.
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Making the sounds more usable.
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired

40. What is Editing?
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word

41. What is Sonic Panorama?
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
From the peak to the trough
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word

42. What is a Woofer?
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
Low frequency sound speaker
Sending the sound where you want it to go

43. What are the four dynamic processes?
Making the sounds more usable.
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)

44. What is Recording?
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
Above 20kHz
Federal Communications Commission
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

45. What are the levels of tones
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
Muting sounds above peak
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word

46. What is Amplification?
Making the sounds more usable.
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Decibels (dB).
Above 20kHz

47. What are the parts of a Sound Wave
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)
Recording that overwrites the previous recording

48. What is Mastering?
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Business
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

49. C of O's Station ID
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.

50. What is Sonic Panorama?
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)